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Memorial Day Weekend Trip to AZ

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    I've got some blogging to catch up on.  My hope is that one day I'll be able to look back on this blog and remember the great and sometimes not so great moments of my life.
   Recently we had an awesome trip to AZ!  Over Memorial Day weekend my sister Julia and I took our babies (Emily and Mckenzie) to Arizona.  We met up with my mom and dad.  We had lots of fun eating In-n-out Burger, hanging out with the Millers, getting to meet my cousin Kaylynn's two boys, and spending time up in Pine with Nora, Wayne, Grandma, and Grandpa.  Before heading up to Pine we got to see where my Grandparents live.  They moved over a year ago from Hawaii to Gilbert, Arizona.  They live in this cute, well-kept retirement community.  They have a great house and friends nearby.
     I love my Clemmer Grandparents.  I feel very lucky that I was able to grown up so close to them.  I would regularly ride my bike or take a walk to their house.  I would call my grandma almost on a daily basis and we'd call each other and say, "what's new girlfriend?"  I have lots of great memories at their Hawaii house.  Fishing at their dock.  Taking barge rides and grandpa letting me drive the barge.  Swimming in their pool.  I would beg grandma to swim with me, and sometimes she would, I loved it.  They always had good chips or ice cream at their house.  :)  I spent the night at their house a couple of times when my parents were out of town.  My grandma would wake me up before school and ask, "what do you want for breakfast?"  I was delighted that I had my choice of pancakes, waffles, toad in a hole, whatever I wanted!  They spoiled me for sure.  I also remember by grandma drove really fast.  I'm not sure why.  But she was a speed racer.
   So glad we made this trip to visit everyone in Arizona.  Here's some pics:
Plane ride to AZ.  Both babies are asleep! Yes!
First stop: In n out burger baby!

Second stop was to the Miller's house.  Here's everyone with their baby... :)
Thanks for taking pictures Julia!


Mckenzie: 10 months old.


Dune buggy rides!  And my dad taught me stick shift.  I'm pretty amazing at it...not.  ;)

Clemmer Grandparents.


These girls love dogs.

Watching everyone play corn hole.


Baby Calvin! (Named after my grandpa Calvin Clemmer)
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  1. UnknownSeptember 18, 2016 at 2:34 PM

    Catching up on your blog... I love your memories and all the pictures... hope we can do this trip again next year!

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